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Offline ausrhino

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Pinball Matts
« on: April 08, 2013, 05:53:28 PM »
Hey guys,

Thought I would stick a post up.  Got pinballs on a slate floor and decided that the playing area needed some softer matts to stand on.  Putting in a couple of hour sessions started to hurt the old running treads.  Converted some high res images to illustrator .ai files.  Tweaked the designs in illustrator.  Sent them off for printing - Cost me about $91 for the three.

I left the CFTBL and ACDC as stock from some promo pics - but the Addams is an original design.

Happy to hear any feedback - or whether anyone else has done anything similar.


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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2013, 05:55:21 PM »
Very cool mate. They look great. Well done ^^^

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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2013, 06:03:09 PM »
I personally think they look tacky, but respect the imagination and effort to do something different.

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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2013, 06:12:09 PM »
They look good especially for the dollars paid, can you post up where they were printed
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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2013, 06:27:51 PM »
They look good especially for the dollars paid, can you post up where they were printed


Sure can - http://www.aussiecustomgifts.com/diy/doormat/large-doormat-383

The quality actually came back quite good.  Actually better then expected for the price.  Due to the floor -and the fact I don't want to suffer another winter standing on cold slate - they serve their purpose excellently. 

I personally think they look tacky, but respect the imagination and effort to do something different.

It is located in a bar area - that has crap over all the walls - so they actually just blend into the background.  To be quite honest ...

 

But ultimately I was going to get something - and the bunnings variety of door matts was doing nothing for me - and definitely would have upped the tackey meter by a factor of 10.

For those that want to dip their toes in the water make sure that you picture is scaled properly.  What I mean is, make sure that you have a design program that can actually save the file to real world dimensions.  Blowing a crappy 128kb jp file up to that size is going to pixelate it to hell. The files I used are actually all vectorised so they can be adjusted to whatever image size I wanted - then saved off in real world dimensions - in jpg for the upload.  example - my jpg files dimensions was 24L x 16W inches - so what I saw was what I got.

If anyone needs any help - just message me.

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Re: Pinball Matts
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2013, 06:35:24 PM »
They look great, I might get a couple made with photos of me for the wife. I always tell her she treats me lime a door mat  %.%
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« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2013, 06:38:53 PM »
Sorry "lime" was meant to read 'like'. Bloody iPad again
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« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2013, 06:41:33 PM »
I think they look great. Excellent work.
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Re: Pinball Matts
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2013, 07:57:10 PM »
There a great idea.

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« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2013, 08:12:36 PM »


They look great! Terrific idea, thanks for sharing.  ^^^
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Re: Pinball Matts
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2013, 08:49:42 PM »
They look great well done.

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« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2013, 10:02:57 PM »
 ^^^
I want to get some for my pins "Elektra", "Stargate" and "Avengers". But I never knew where to get them done or how to do them.

Your mats look great.
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« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2013, 10:40:53 PM »
I think you have done a great job. In the right room they will look great. Sounds like you got them done pretty cheaply too.

I've got this one for my GNR:


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Re: Pinball Matts
« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2013, 08:00:50 AM »
Great idea they look great

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Re: Pinball Matts
« Reply #14 on: April 09, 2013, 11:25:53 AM »
They look good especially for the dollars paid, can you post up where they were printed


Sure can - http://www.aussiecustomgifts.com/diy/doormat/large-doormat-383


cheers for that
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